I might add to avoid using on board video or video cards like my own, an
NVIDIA based LE 6200, that uses system RAM. Even if you aren't doing
games. You are using only 1GB of RAM.
Alan
On 8/22/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Dienstag 21 August 2007 13:41:39 schrieb brullo
I have used glimpse for indexing my email archive. It works pretty well,
but requires indexing runs and also the index files are quite large. Good,
though.
And for a bonus, it comes with agrep, if I recall correctly, a fantastic
almost grep tool for somewhat fuzzy searches.
Recently, on my
I have been unable to boot into my gentoo system due to a Machine Check
Exception. This is an AMD 64 system. MCE for AMD is enabled in the kernel
(2.6.21 gentoo-sources).
I am unable to boot in to turn off MCE checking. I was able to log in by
single user mode. The MCE happens at the end of
Followuing up, I removed a troublesome partition that every time was being
checked on boot, and I was able to boot ok. Does this make sense?
Alan
On 9/1/07, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been unable to boot into my gentoo system due to a Machine Check
Exception
On 9/1/07, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for the response, Tim:
This makes little sense without knowing what partition you removed and
what you mean by removing it - did you take it out of /etc/fstab? Did
you actually repartition your disk? What partition was it, what kind was
it
translation utility, but I didn't make sense of what to do with it.
Thank you again,
Alan
On 9/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 11:08:27 +1000
Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been unable to boot into my gentoo system due to a Machine
Check Exception
Thank you Dan:
I'll look into this. Time to tear the old box apart again.
Thank you again.
Alan
On 9/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:51:38 +1000
Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think your solution is the better one, though.
I did follow
Thank you. I noticed that when I ran make oldconfig on a new kernel, the
configs were not what I'd expected. The wrong CPU type was configured.
Alan
On 9/5/07, Don Jerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/3/07, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you. I have solved the problem
I have memory issues, and would like to keep my nvidia card out of my system
ram. Both system ram and video ram are limited. Video ram is 128 on an
nvidia based 6200 LE card.
I remember some parameters in the config file for X11 XFree86, stating the
system memory explicitly. I have found no
I hope I will be forgiven for wasting bandwidth; I want very much to express
my gratitude to those developers, documentation writers, and others, that
Gentoo is such an excellent distro. If three is anything I can figure to
do---possible documentation or perhaps an ebuild or two---I want to do
I've read bunches of WWW pages about this.
The model number is C-BA4-MSE. It's worked in the past.
The vertical wheel is seen by logitech_applet. I have tried a large number
of different configs in xorg.conf.
Obviously, this is a common problem.
Can anyone who has had this problem in the past
Somenow I've overlooked that my /tmp file has been filling up with large
files for over a year.
May I ask what is a reasonable way to handle the /tmp directory, without
deleting large files that are maybe only a few days old?
Thank you for any ideas,
Alan
--
Alan Davis, Kagman High School,
I am posting to this list as a first resort. I hope this is not off topic.
I've been searching for a very simple database program. I've used edb
(emacs database) and that works ok, for some things. All I need right now
is a simple, searchable, sortable list of laboratory and field data for a
functionality without the complexities.
Alan
On Nov 11, 2007 11:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:23:42AM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
May I elicit suggestions?
Do you want simple key=value pair (perl hash, associative array, etc)
where one key gives one value? Your
I have been running a machine for a long while. I am beginning to
think that the old saw that Gentoo isn't release oriented is hogwash:
each installation seems to be more polished, leaving behind a windrove
of cruft accumlating over the years. The few times I have installed
since my introduction
:09 AM, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 00:14 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
So it's back to the old threads about whether 64 bits is superior to
32, etc. My question now is, given that the system is working damned
well now, what is the best way to handle
CUPS has been working flawlessly for quite some time, one of the feats
of newer GNU/Linux installs (to one who couldn't get an HP mainstream
inkjet working right some 10 years ago).Simultaneously, I notices
that Apple now owns the copyright, and after a recent upgrade, stopped
working.
I have
2008, Dale wrote:
Alan E. Davis wrote:
Any ideas?
I ran into something similar to the a while back and I had to un-merge
cups, delete the config files, then reemerge cups and reconfigure my
printer. Keep in mind that when you unmerge something, the config
files remain in /etc
:
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Dale wrote:
Alan E. Davis wrote:
Any ideas?
I ran into something similar to the a while back and I had to un-merge
cups, delete the config files, then reemerge cups and reconfigure my
printer. Keep in mind that when you unmerge something, the config
files remain
I think this is one of those multifactorial problems, and I'm unable
to pin down the exact cause. I did several things that might have
conspired to make printing stop working. I have a new motherboard,
M2N-E, from ASUS, with a dual core AMD64-X2 processor (dual core),
that has given me fits
No I haven't. I'll try one soon. This is a new 1GB DDR2 from
Kingston. It would be interesting if it fails. Note that w/ Ubuntu's
kernel, I have not encountered a balk at all in booting.
Alan
On Jan 9, 2008 3:51 PM, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan E. Davis wrote:
When
:
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
Partly because I needed to print, and partly to rule out hardware
issues, I booted ubuntu 7.10, and installed. No problem has been
encountered over the past few days of using ubuntu. I can print, and
no lockups are encountered (so far, KOW
Perhaps a user's perspective. A clueless user. Gentoo is the
ass-kickinest distro I have tried. The docs are the best in the Linux
communities. Where does that leave me and where does that leave
Gentoo now? I am impelled to write after seeing numerous posts about
the apparent demise of GWN,
I have installed gentoo on a gateway laptop, with an ATI mobility 9000
radeon video adaptor. Once I have xorg installed, and ati-drivers
(proprietary), tvout was pretty easy to set up using ati's setup
utility, fglrxconfig and a couple of easy changes to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.
However, I am having
My dual opteron box runs gentoo nicely. However, it ALWAYS takes two
boot cycles to boot up. Is there some issue I might need to know
about? Is this one boot per cpu?
Thanks for any ideas,
Alan
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
On 12/18/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been experiencing this problem for a while, but I
did not have the time to try to solve it yet.
In my case, I have an Athlon64, and most of the time,
the first boot
A useful postscript utility is called poster. It can do this for
many postscript files. Perhaps you can convert to postscript and do
this? Don't know exactly what you have in mind. I have printed a
tide graph on 12 sheets, and cut and pasted (meatspace) them together
on the wall of my
Over a period of a week or so, while I was celebrating the holidays,
my system experienced a hardware hiccough, causing system
clock/hardware clock time to change to 2020. The upshot is that a
bunch of merges, a kernel compile, and various other system components
have files that are way out of
I have installed enlightenment and have a liking for it. So I am
trying to install e17, which is a bit more of a chore, and, yes, I do
know it's unstable. In fact, it involves a number of CVS archives.
Since I am on a dialup line, it is extremely troubling to note that
the archive, involving
On 1/2/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Changing dates manually will confuse portage, which keeps track of the
datestamps of all files it installs. The upshot is that it will no
remove files where the dates have changed. The safest method of correcting
the dates would be to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:14:27 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
genlop just says:
#genlop --list --date 01/01/2020 01/01/2021
Date 2020010100:00:00 is in the future, not good
The solution to which is obvious, don't give a date in the future. --date
works with a single
I have been seeing a lot of these messages:
* Some file in '/etc/{conf.d,init.d}' have Modification time in the future!
I post here a list of those files, as I contemplate what to do about this:
# ls -lrt /etc/conf.d
shows the following with 2020 dates:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318 Dec 30
Ok. I just did it.
Thanks for the advice.
On 1/3/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:44:09 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
If I touch these as current, will it hurt anything?
No, because /etc/conf.d/ and /etc/init.d are usually in CONFIG_PROTECT,
so portage
I did a# emerge -uDv world on a ~x86 box. Seems like something
has happened to networking.
lo is not configuring properly
eth0 is not configuring properly.
I sense there are problems with dbus and maybe hal.
The following is received
# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
* Starting eth0
Here's from genlop. (Many of these were merged after the problem showed up):
# genlop --list --date two days ago
[1;34m * app-shells/bash
[0m Thu Jan 12 01:36:12 2006 [1;32m app-shells/bash-3.1_p5
[0m Thu Jan 12 01:36:42 2006 [1;32m sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.13-r1
[0m Thu Jan
Good question. I'll have to get back to you on that: I'm at work; my
PC is at home.
Alan
On 1/13/06, Ghislain Bourgeois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It doesn't go up on boot or you can't make it go up with ifconfig?
Ghislain Bourgeois
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
] wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:32:49AM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis
squawked:
Here's from genlop. (Many of these were merged after the problem showed
up):
# genlop --list --date two days ago
[1;34m * app-shells/bash
[0m Thu Jan 12 01:36:12 2006 [1;32m app-shells/bash
On 1/21/06, Mike Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
even go back to Afterstep or Enlightenment, but for now kde-3.5 works
for me.
May I ask others' experiences with e17? I just wasted my holiday
installing e17 on two of three machines. It is smaller than Kde, but
background is 20% of cpu .
I wish to install crossover office so I can use various animations,
primarily, that rely on plugins, as well as the odd Windoze software
package. Noting there is an ebuild for amd64, I had attempted to
install a demo copy to check if it will work, without success. I
don't want to pay for a copy
I remember a little MSDOG shell utility called 4dos. It alllowed me
to store comments that would appear alongside the filename. Can
anyone point to a way to do this transparently and easily with bash?
I don't want to run any extra programs if I can avoid it. I do like
dired for emacs, though.
On 2/13/06, Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Under linux that's not nessecary
as you can just use long filenames including spaces..
I do that, of course. It solves 95% of my issues. Somehow, I still
miss that feature. Additional comments would help me, for example,
when I have a
I am pretty much clueless, in general; however, I might report that I,
too, recently experienced this same breakdown in all of the net
interfaces on one of my machines. This appeared after a massive
update to a ~x86 system involving over 700MB of downloads. It took
several days to perform the
times. Almost every
serious problem I have had has been solved in somewhat the same way.
I cling to these procedures like a blind man clings to a wall.
Sorry for the bodged message.
Alan Davis
On 2/28/06, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am pretty much clueless, in general; however
Yes. I am using dispatch-conf. Do you find it to be adequate?
Alan
On 3/1/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/28/06, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
emerge --sync
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild
glsa-check -f all
The system
Having been (mostly happily) using Ubuntu for a number of months I
yearn to install Gentoo again. Tried a beta release of Gentoo 2008.0,
and was pleased, at least to be able to boot and not have the
confusion about naming HDDs, and using Grub was simpler. Now, as I
approach the Live CD installer
Thank you for some thoughtful suggestions.
I have just gotten a 500GB SATA drive, intending to back up all of my
data. What I fear most about LVM is the possibility of losing the
data somehow. I may be too yesterday, but I sense that ordinary
partitions (at least ordinary to me) will be more
Comments for this thread have been helpfu. I have done a test install
from the live install cd. For now, I guess, 74 GB is enough for the
entire system, leaving out my older /home directories and archives, so
I just let the installer pick a preferred partitioning configuration.
Next I think
I have worked my way through the installation of Gentoo 2008.0 from
the LiveCD (amd64), running into several wrinkles along the way, and
eventually overcoming most of them. I plan to document the process at
another time.
I want to express my joy at the result (except for some personal
errors,
Alan
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Congratulations and welcome to gentoo-land. It's quite a feat of
accomplishment to get through your very first gentoo install :-)
Actually, this about my fifth or sixth Gentoo install, but it was
quite a challenging
of excellence to it,
but it comes at a cost. It would be interesting to set two dual core
Opterons on that board. One Day.
Alan
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan E. Davis wrote:
Actually, this about my fifth or sixth Gentoo install, but it was
quite
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A few years back I bought a Tyan SMP board (dual Athlon 1000's if I
recall). I was very pleased as it screamed through builds. Then
summer arrived, and with a computer room that gets warmish, I had lots
of cooling
I am seeing errors like this, and wonder if someone can suggest a solution:
(emacs:22548): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: cannot connect to
the session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a
reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a
reply, the
I've had some trouble in the past with cfg-update although it sure is
easy. After a recent upgrade to a new portage, or so I assume, I was asked
to decide what to do about a config file change to an entirely new system:
OpenRC. Not sure what to do, I probably bodged that.
Now I receive this
Mick:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Make sure you use the --noconfmem option when emerging openrc so that
it replaces the config file no matter what with the new default one.
Exactly what I needed to know. Thank you Mick. I have followed your advice
and
I'm having fits about dbus, at least that's what I think?
Firefox 3, epiphany, and firefox 3 bin all do this. Attach any file (as any
user, on KDE or Gnome) and firefox immediately crashes. Root can attach
files.
Some background.
Today I upgraded these before I noticed this problem:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
no. Just no.
For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago. It
stops about 1/2 way
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WRT emerge -e world I had a few problems where glibc wouldn't build and
tracking down the cause of that fixed my other problems. Could be
coincidence, could be related. I rebuilt the toolchain once or twice to get
glib
I have reread the GCC upgrade guide. I skipped the step of fixing libtool,
and recompiling. So another overnight emerge -e world ...
Thank you, meantime
Alan
--
Alan Davis
It's never a matter of liking or disliking ...
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man
] wrote:
On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
no. Just no.
For what it's worth, I started
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan E. Davis wrote:
I have found a script called emwrap.sh
Please don't top post, it makes it very hard to follow the flow of the
list. Thanks! Let us know how that turns out with the script. Also,
where did you
Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and
it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I can
fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several partitions
to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass.
1. How could one reasonably
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
man mount, also google for 'bind' mounting.
Thank you. That was it. IN answer to another query, as to why not symlink,
I cannot point to a particular behavior, but I have found that symlinks do
not behave in
Norberto and Josh:
Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to
experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of,
partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have it clear in
mind which partitions belong to what. Also my main
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
That should stir up something for ya. :-)
This frightens me:
Cleaning up
It is also safe to remove older GCC versions at this time. Please substitute
YOUR-NEW-GCC-VERSION with
Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are
blocking. I have run emerge -e system several times. Some other
problems were cleared up, and this
avahi--mDNSResponder/mdnsresponder-compat whatever it all is, just
keeps coming back even when solved by some skullduggery. I've
On AMD64 system with an MX 4000 video card.
I have made it through an installation, installing everything from the
Packages (GRP) disk. This has been a no-net install so far.
Trying to configure Xorg, after installing nvidia-kernel driver and nvidia-glx.
Xorg -configure
then
X -config
for your post.
Alan On 10/24/05, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What does
lsmod | grep nvidia
return?On 10/22/05, Alan E. Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On AMD64 system with an MX 4000 video card.
I have made it through an installation, installing everything from the
Packages (GRP) disk
I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl
g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in
/etc/init.d/.
I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo. I
assume I need to do something different with net.ath0, and I don't
understand how to create an
Thanks for the answers. I MIGHT have gotten wireless working:
have to wait until the router is working to find out. These
answers help.
AlanOn 10/26/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 26, 2005, at 6:28 AM, Jerry McBride wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:28, Alan E. Davis wrote: I
I didn't understand how to set the ssl flag.
I used wget to download, using the option mentioned in the error
message given, and installed it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Then
emerge realplayer again. It's not pretty but it worked.
Alan On 11/1/05, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct
Don't know whether this is even relevant. I was pulling my hair
out trying to get the nvidia driver (nvidia) working with kernel
2.6.12 for about three weeks. It worked ok with nv, but with
nvidia it gave the same message you got. I was using the same
nvidia-kernel version you are. I moved to
Can I move the startup of syslog-ng up to earlier in the boot sequence? What's the earliest?
Alan
I have had a hell of a fight with a Matrox Mystique, the only working card I have around for now.
The mouse is intermittent, for some reason, and there are double images
of lines of text when scrolling, which are cleared up by Ctrl-L.
The same machine is working ok on Ubuntu, but no matter what I
Several 32 bit binaries beg to be installed on this gentoo box. Is there a good HOWTO on how to do this?
Alan Davis
, if you want to run applications that don't have a
binary available to run with 32bits libraries, you should use a 32bit
chroot.
Thanks again,
Alan DavisOn 11/14/05, Greg Bur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/13/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several 32 bit binaries beg to be installed
Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:21:00 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I think this is a step in the right direction. However, does this apply to 32 bit binaries one might wish to install from an RPM, for example,
or a DEB file, from a 32 bit dist?Normally you just install those
That sounds good.
Would you recommend installing with rpm or apt? Or copying files over by hand?
AlanOn 11/15/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 14 November 2005 15:14, Alan E. Davis wrote: I really appreciate the help.
I am looking at several 32 bit binary packages
I am interested in this discussion. I spent a weekend trying out
several players. Of the few I tried, I liked xine-ui best,
perhaps, for it's playability. However, ogle, goggles, and
kmplayer give the gift of bookmarks. Is there any way to do
bookmarks w/ Xine or Mplayer? Mplayer is nice also.
Bookmarks: Set a mark at certain places in a movie that one can
return to. Set many. With one of the viewers, one can name
the bookmarks. THis is valuable for teaching.
Alan On 11/16/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:08:58 +1000Alan E. Davis wrote: I am interested in
I'm in over my head---bigtime. Trying to install a good gentoo
setup, to configure xorg where I have been forced to use the last
working video card in my parts box: a matrox mystique. The system
is ok, with A7V600 MB, 512 MB RAM, and an Athlon XP 2600+. Video
is corrupted using Gentoo, no matter
Bob:
Your comments are extremely useful. However much I would
like to get a newer graphics card, I am stuck with this one for a few
weeks at least. It works well on an Ubuntu system on a different
partition.
How would you recommend to go about trying vesa. That may be what Ubuntu is doing. Turn
I found a source package called lab3timer. It didn't want to
compile on my box. I think this guy has it set up with three
separate timers for laboratory use.
AlanOn 11/17/05, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there something akin to the KDE timer?--Kurt--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing
On 11/18/05, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, it mught be useful to download the mga.o from Matrox andfollow the instructions to replace the one in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (if I recallthe path correctly).
I did download this driver, and when I installed, a message was
generated that the
I think Hans's idea makes sense, since it was the file storm.c that was
patched in the first place by others. I'll have to wait, because
I've started a new gentoo install due to problems detecting the /boot
partition in my machine. I botched an attempt to move data from
that partition to the /
Following up: The solution proposed by Hans was somewhat
successful. The buffer update problem has apparently been
solved at a higher of 1024x768.
Wavy vertical lines are still evident. This I can ignore, however. At 862 On 11/21/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:I think Hans's idea
More information: at a lower clock, even at 1024x768 the lines seem to
be less of a problem. At 832x624, this artifact is not apparent.
Thank you for all the help.
Alan On 11/25/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Following up: The solution proposed by Hans was somewhat
successful
I have tried alot of approaches. Wvdial is superior for detecting
hardware: it found my modem on ttyS14, where other approaches hadn't
found it.
What I cannot seem to do is set up for my family to dial in from their
accounts. I have tried changing permissions of various kinds,
adding user to
, everyone. I will follow them up.
Alan DavisOn 11/28/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:33:09 +b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan E. Davis wrote: I have tried alot of approaches.Wvdial is superior for detecting
hardware: it found my modem on ttyS14, where other
I've been plunking around with this. I tried what may be a brute
force method: change the permissions of /dev/ttyS14. But
/dev/ttyS14 is a link to /dev/tts/14. I now see that is a devfs
rendering? I thought I do not have support for devfs, and I am
trying to use something else.
Anyway, is it
to me that works!
Thank you to everyone who made suggestions.
Alan DavisOn 11/28/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been plunking around with this. I tried what may be a brute
force method: change the permissions of /dev/ttyS14. But
/dev/ttyS14 is a link to /dev/tts/14. I now see
The following error reflects one that has happened several times
recently with some different ebuilds. On my system is found
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++.la
What steps can I take to complete the emerge of gnome-vfs that has stopped with the following error?
grep:
before
being set up for this system?
Thanks, let's see now,
Alan On 12/3/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan E. Davis wrote: The following error reflects one that has happened several times recently with some different ebuilds.On my system is found /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6
Thank you for the clear explanation.
AlanOn 12/4/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's bizaare.I don't know yet whether it worked.It is a bit worrisome to have to remember what version of a program WAS installed, to configure
In spite of the excellent explanation, I am still at sea with this
issue. I apologize if top-posting is an etiquette
issue. Then I suppose I ought to trim this message down.
More down there V.On 12/4/05,
Richard Fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is because the .la file for whatever libraries
/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib'
Does this suggest that further measures are necessary?
Thanks again,
Alan On 12/4/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:So I don't know what was the old version to call fix_libtool_files.sh on.I know or can find out
I cleverly created a directory : /usr/portage/downloads, where I
schemed to have wget download files for my home (dialup) machine, so I
could then burn them to a CD and carry them home.
However, on Monday I arrived to find that while locate downloads found this directory, it isn't there anymore!
This is a relief. I should not have set up a directory in
/usr/portage. It would have made more sense in /usr/local/something.
To clarify: I have an x86 machine at home, with dialup connection to
the internet. It's taken some kind of long time to get the system
squared away. To save several
On 12/5/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have several Gentoo rigs, you can also set up a rsync server.
You actually already have it but it is not turned on. Search for rsyncd
on the forums in the Documentation, Tips Tricks
I have three machines w/ Gentoo: at work, one machine is
I may be barking up the wrong tree, but have you run the command
# texconfig
?
Alan
On 12/5/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:21 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
Joseph schreef:
Please excuse me for interrupting when I know nothing about this issue
at all, but:
When you ran texconfig did you configure GLOBAL SETTINGS under dvips?
Alan
On 12/6/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 23:51 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
I may be barking up the wrong tree, but have you run the command
# texconfig
?
Alan
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